Re: Sex Harrassment At Gigs! What To Do!

From: Steven Catanzaro (stevencatanzaro@sprintmail.com)
Date: Wed May 01 2002 - 21:36:45 CEST

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    Hello,
    This is the person who was sexually harrassed at that popular and prominent
    night club on the Sunset Strip, Just a few things to add on my own behalf.
    Yeah that sound guy was a real creep. And I couldnt believe the situation I
    found myself in at that damn place. First this guy was rude and obnoxious
    during sound check, he kept telling me I had to sing louder, and he treated
    my female conga player like dirt. And she wants to tell him to go *uck
    himself" too. Than he pranced around the club like he was the owner,
    bragging to my group, that he was the sound man and that he was running the
    show.

    And let me say, that Ive had similar experiences of rudeness with people
    that work in these clubs, some places do treat the bands like shit. One
    place didnt want to let me in, sent me all the way home to get my id, and
    then didnt even look at it when I retruned than they wanted to charge me $3
    for water.

    But this was the first time I got sexual harrassed.

    So this sound guy invites me up to his booth to explain why he needed to
    express himself so freely during sound check.
    One minute this guy was telling me about the LED's on the mixing board. And
    the next minute he was feeling on my legs and asking me for hugs and kisses.
    I told him I thought he was horny and asked him when the last time it was
    when he had gotton laid. I was hoping that this would make him feel
    embarrassed, but I think he was up for days on that "crank shit" - so he
    took a moment or two trying to explain how he just couldn't control himself
    because I was so HOT...He also went on to explain how he was doing me a
    favor ...He said that if I was sexually stimulated before I went on, I would
    put on a better show...A technique that only worked on woman but had an
    opposite effect on men..

    Anyway he was so gross, when he hugged me goodbye I just wanted to yell
    "help Popeye". And I didnt tell anyone because I wanted to have a good first
    show with a good sound for the band. The funniest part was that this guy
    really thought he was sexy and that there was a mutual romantic attraction
    between us...and even though I dont want to mention what Hollywood spot we
    were in.... There was definately a lack of sexual stimulation in the
    air...maybe he should have tried "chocolat".

    btw, my email address is nightsky107@hotmail.com if you want to respond off
    the aj list, which i don't subscribe to...

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Elson Trinidad" <elson@westworld.com>
    To: "Steven Catanzaro" <stevencatanzaro@sprintmail.com>; "ACIDJAZZ"
    <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 11:32 AM
    Subject: Re: Sex Harrassment At Gigs! What To Do!

    > At 09:31 AM 5/1/02 -0700, Steven Catanzaro wrote:
    > >
    > >So, ladies and germs of the aj list... what would u do in a situation
    like
    > >that? How common is it?
    > >
    > >My thought would be to let it slide the night of the show, and then call
    > >the club manager later in the week... whaddya think?
    >
    > Yeah definitely inform the club owner and management, and threaten to have
    > both musicians and clubgoers not patronize the club if no disciplinary
    > action is taken.
    >
    >
    > - 30 -
    > : . elson trinidad, los angeles, california, usa
    > : . elson@westworld.com : www.westworld.com/~elson
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    > www.mp3.com/etrinity
    >
    >
    >



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